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There are over 110 bike collectives and co-ops in the United States and Canada. This is a list of them. There are currently five in PA - the closest is Free Ride in Pittsburgh.

The Department of Career and Technical Education (CTE) needed an employability assessment that was formative, practical and free or low-cost to administer. CTE, in partnership with CWIC, conducted research and found that no existing assessment met all criteria and created a customized assessment tool, focused on the core employability skills most commonly identified in our research.

The mission of the Bike Collective network is to improve and encourage communication between existing and future community bike shops. Collectively we can improve a bigger wheel as opposed to re-inventing smaller ones. This email list is where organizers from community bike shops around the world can discuss exactly how to do that.

In Meadville

In the 90's the University of Montana wanted to build a 12 million dollar parking garage.  The  students got involved and helped to enact some legislation to solve the transportation issues.  They collected a $4 fee from each student that funds a student run bus service, a cruiser coop, etc.

This manual is designed to help you have a better time volunteering at the co-op. It's much easier to have a good time if the job you're doing is easier, and we hope to make it easier by providing explanations that you can use to learn new tasks or remember how to do ones you've done before. There are entries here for most of the things we do in the shop, but some basic bicycle repair tasks that are hard to learn without taking a class are left out (for example, there's no article on how to adjust brakes). Enjoy!